http://jeff.ourexchange.net Sucking away valuable moments of your life ... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:24:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By even the most conservative accounts, the "Christmas Season", otherwise known as the season of greed and overindulgence, where the majority of retail sales are supposed to occur, seems to have been foisted onto us a bit early this year. The strategy being employed by retail outlets, from rolling out the ... http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/11/13/ho-ho-ho/ Amid news of the overcompensated fatcat of General Motors heading over to Capitol Hill to prostrate himself at the feet of House Speaker Pelosi to beg for some of that sweet, sweet bailout money, without admitting that the pure capitalism he pimped to support his outrageous salary is now effectively ... http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/11/12/let-general-motors-die/ Well, that's it. At around 11pm EST, Senator John McCain conceded the presidency to Senator Barack Obama. All of my fears of stolen elections and bigotry prevailing were unfounded. And I owe someone a lunch, but gladly so. After listening to a few pundits on TV and McCain's concession speech, I ... http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/11/04/history/ I've been watching all available polling today after I hit the polls around 8:30 AM EST to cast my vote. I'm a little nervous watching the polling numbers, and everything is just a little too close for my comfort. Please, America, not the dud. http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/11/04/spread-your-cheeks-america-here-comes-the-dud/ I pulled the mipsel toolkit for the WRT54G from the 180+ MB kit from Linksys for easy access. hndtools-mipsel-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 hndtools-mipsel-uclibc-0.9.19.tar.bz2 http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/11/04/wrt54g-toolchain/ The only haproxy load balancer package for the NSLU2 is really, really old, and is installed as "optware" in /opt. With that in mind, here's the 1.3.15.3 package, installed in root. Package : haproxy_1.3.15.5-2_armv5b.ipk Source : haproxy-1.3.15.5.tar.gz http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/10/21/haproxy-13153-for-nslu2/ In case anyone was wondering, we've been had, in an awful, awful way, to the tune of around 70 *billion* dollars. And as pointed out on Cronytopia, US newspapers aren't covering it. Why aren't we burning people in the streets, right now? I mean, I understand that the bailout passed by ... http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/10/19/weve-been-had/ Instead of having to deal with an entire Perl installation on an NSLU2, I compiled a readily available urlencode binary, which takes piped input and encodes it for use in a URL. Tarball : urlencode-armv5b.tar.gz http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/10/15/urlencode-for-nslu2/ For all those fans of the venerable NSLU2 (or "slug" as we like to call it), I have another package for OpenSlug/BE. This time it's remserial, a Linux equivalent to the BSD "netfwd" software, allowing serial ports to be redirected over TCP. Package: remserial_0.2000-1_armv5b.ipk Source: remserial.tar.gz For those enterprising people who would like ... http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/10/10/remserial-binary-for-nslu2/ (Again, apologies to the people I stole the title from, the nice guys over at crooksandliars.com.) Every time I think I've heard the most awful thing done by religious people... In the same day, I've heard two stories coming from the Catholic Church. Yes, I know, the guys who did the whole ... http://jeff.ourexchange.net/2008/10/08/holy-crap/